The first description of Cincinnati and other Ohio settlements
Subtitle: the travel report of Johann Heckewelder (1792) with an introduction by H.A. Rattermann ; edited by Don Heinrich Tolzmann.
Contributors: Tolzmann, Don Heinrich, 1945-
Publisher: University Press of America
Published: 1988
Place of publication: Lanham, MD
Language: eng
Number of pages: 71
Subjects: Heckewelder, John Gottlieb Ernestus, 1743-1823 -- Travel -- Ohio River Valley.; Ohio River Valley -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800.; Cincinnati (Ohio) -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800.
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 61-69).
Translation of a chapter from Heckewelder's 1792-93 journal, which was originally published in 1797 in Halle, Germany, as part of a geographical book series entitled Auswahl der besten ausländischen geographischen und statistischen Nachrichten zur Aufklarung der Völkerkunde und Länderkunde.